The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
says only difficult math problems are patentable, not thought processes.
This is interesting cause while a kickass DCT implementation is still patenteable, bogus stuff like 1-click shopping is not.
Security methods to enable 1 click shopping might be though.
There’s another huge leap for US coming from courts this week. Teachers can’t
be sued for denying the mystical teapot, lepricorns, unicorns or
creationism.

Breaking news: Google acquires Motorola Mobile.
Now the Nortel story makes a lot more sense. There’s 3 guys you don’t want to mess with in mobile,
Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola. Either one is probably capable to sue the radio
out of your phone so locking horns with them is bad for business
as Apple discovered. With Motorola’s patent portfolio and months of Apple marketing it’s ok to
file injunctions on vague patent reasons I’m sure Google lawyers will have a field day.
Specially seeing as Motorola helped bootstrap Apple’s phone business and they probably
had access to some Motorola secrets.